A slain TV anchor's mother can move forward in a suit against the hospital that treated her daughter after three of its employees illegally looked at her treatment records, according to an Associated Press story.

Patricia Cannady's daughter, Anne Pressly, spent the last days of her life at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center in Little Rock, Ark., where she lingered for five days after being beaten and left for dead in her apartment.

According to the story, Dr. Jay Holland, a physician, was accused of looking at Pressly's electronic file from home. In 2009, he and two other hospital employees, Candida Griffin and Sarah Elizabeth Miller, pleaded guilty to wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information.

In plea agreements, the trio each said they viewed the file not for professional reasons, but out of personal curiosity. They also said they didn't pass information to other people, the story said.